{"id":1525,"date":"2021-03-22T12:51:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T19:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2021-05-03T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T23:35:14","slug":"macos-big-sur-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2021\/03\/22\/macos-big-sur-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS &#8220;Big Sur&#8221; tips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While keeping your Mac up-to-date with the latest macOS system software generally is easier (and more reliable) for &#8220;mere mortals&#8221; than keeping up with all the Windows 10 updates on a PC, it&#8217;s still a chore. For some there&#8217;s no practical benefit for a new release (other than any security patches). But if you&#8217;ve got a Mac that supports the latest macOS \u2013 in this case version 11.2 with the moniker &#8220;Big Sur,&#8221; at some point the upgrade makes sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first thing after a macOS upgrade is to check that everything looks okay and that you can do what you typically do as before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, if you&#8217;re curious, explore new features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 MacWorld > &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/339648\/macos-11-big-sur-secret-features-battery-safari-messages-control-center-widgets-privacy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Uncover macOS Big Sur\u2019s secrets with these 11 tips, tricks, and hidden features<\/a>&#8221; by Roman Loyola, Senior Editor (Mar 22.2021) \u2013\u00a0Big Sur is a monster release, and there are a bunch of new features you may have missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It\u2019s been a few months now since Apple released macOS 11 Big Sur, and hopefully by now you\u2019ve adjusted to its r<strong>evamped user interface and the major new features<\/strong>, like the enhanced Messages and Maps apps. But operating systems are huge and there are always a few new features that aren\u2019t obvious and you may have missed. Here are 11 tips, tricks, and hidden features in Big Sur that you need to check out. Give these a look and get the most out of Big Sur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While keeping your Mac up-to-date with the latest macOS system software generally is easier (and more reliable) for &#8220;mere mortals&#8221; than keeping up with all the Windows 10 updates on a PC, it&#8217;s still a chore. For some there&#8217;s no practical benefit for a new release (other than any security patches). But if you&#8217;ve got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[152,30,90,52],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-general","tag-big-sur","tag-mac","tag-macos","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}